Hall Of Fame Announces Committee Updates October 30, 2024 At a recent Board meeting of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF), committee updates were approved in advance of the CHRHF 2025 nominations and elections.
Retzlaff Appointed Executive Director Of ASHA April 03, 2024 The Alberta Standardbred Horse Association (ASHA) announced on Wednesday, April 3 the appointment of Nancy Retzlaff as its new Executive Director. The appointment came into effect on April 1.
Record-Breaking ASHA Yearling Sale Shatters Expectations September 26, 2023 "I’m ecstatic. Alberta’s breed improvement program -- including incentives for buying mares in foal -- in Alberta is obviously working."
Creating Fun For Fans September 26, 2022 For more than a decade, Fun For Fans has been living up to its name.
Harness Racing Returns To Century Mile November 17, 2021 For the first time in almost a year, harness racing returns to Nisku's Century Mile on Friday, Nov. 19.
Chronicles Of A Century Race Day October 13, 2021 "It's a lot of things [horse racing] but never boring. We are like postmen — rain or shine we race."
Alberta Racing Surpasses Expectations November 13, 2020 "We missed all of March, April and May. We didn’t start racing until the middle of June. We were scheduled to race 227 days but we only got in 140 race dates and yet we still managed to pay off our de...
Update On Racing In Alberta April 14, 2020 “In a situation like this a lot of normal businesses can lay people off and lock the doors and all they have are lights and utilities to pay for. This industry is completely different in the sense tha...
Century Downs Season Heating Up April 19, 2018 Now that the racing seasons have ended at Fraser Downs in Surrey, B.C., and are about to close at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California, it’s expected that a bunch of horsemen will be bringing their stab...
Gall Takes In Super Final Night October 29, 2017 Standardbred Canada President and CEO Dan Gall was at Northlands Park on Saturday evening (October 28), as he watched the province’s top two and three-year-olds square off in the Alberta Sires Stakes ...
Beautiful Debut For The Track On 2 September 18, 2017 There was an ‘old time county fair’ kind of atmosphere at The Track on 2 in Lacombe, Alberta on Sunday (September 17), as the track's new owner/operators, Kurt and Kyla Belich and Ross Morrison, welco...
Alberta Downs Sold, Re-Named September 10, 2017 While Northlands is finishing its summer Thoroughbred meet and the track conversion is getting underway at Century Downs for the start of a fall Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meet on September 23, th...
Successful Fundraiser At Bedrock June 12, 2017 On Sunday, June 11, Alberta horsepeople hosted a Family Fun Day fundraiser in aid of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation at Kelly Hoerdt’s Bedrock Farms in Beaumont, Alberta. The festivities m...
